mirator Latin · revision 35909

+ {{infobox|confidence=established|formation=derivation|attested=65–8 BC, Horace|origins=la mīrus}}

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+ ==Pronunciation==

+ * Classical: [miːˈraː.tɔr]^(Wiktionary)

+ * Ecclesiastical: [miˈraː.tor]^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Forms==

+ '''mīrātor''' ''m'' (genitive mīrātōris, feminine mīrātrīx); third declension^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Etymology==

+ It is [[af|la|mīror|-tor|t1=to wonder at, admire]].^(OLD 2012)^(Wiktionary) That verb is derived from [[m|la|mīrus|t=wonderful, remarkable]], which de Vaan traces to [[itc-pro|*smeiro-]] and [[ine-pro|*sméi-ro-|t=laughter]]; he follows Vine in taking the neuter ⟨mīrum⟩ as the oldest form, which answers the doubts others have raised about deriving “remarkable” from a word for laughing.^(de Vaan 2008)

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+ ==Earliest recorded meaning==

+ Köbler first records it in Horace,^(Köbler 2010) who uses it in the ''Satires'' of a man's taste in women.^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Georges 1913)

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+ ==Semantic evolution==

+ Lewis & Short call it a word of poetry and of post-Augustan prose.^(Lewis & Short 1879) Propertius says he is not an admirer of beauty alone, Ovid has an admirer of things, Seneca an admirer of himself and Pliny the Elder of empty things;^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Conte 2010) Curtius speaks of an admirer of courage even in an enemy.^(Georges 1913)^(Conte 2010)

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+ It survives in Spanish [[m|es|mirador]] and Portuguese [[m|pt|miradouro]].^(TLL) British medieval writers used it of one who stares in surprise or amazement.^(DMLBS)

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+ ==Timeline==

+ * 65–8 BC – Horace uses it in the ''Satires''.^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 57/46–12 BC – Propertius calls himself an admirer of more than beauty.^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Conte 2010)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 43 BC–18 AD – Ovid has an admirer of things.^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 4 BC–65 AD – Seneca speaks of an admirer of himself.^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 1st century AD – Curtius writes of an admirer of courage in an enemy.^(Georges 1913)^(Köbler 2010)

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+ ==Meanings==

+ ===Noun===

+ # An [[m|en|admirer]].^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)

+ # ''(Medieval Latin)'' One who stares in surprise or [[m|en|amazement]].^(DMLBS)

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+ ==References==

+ {{reflist}}